End-gate fastener.



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Patented luly 25, |899.

F A cAnLsoN END GATE FASTENER.

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UNITED STAT-ns PATENT FFIC.

FRANK A. CARLSON, or ATTICA, INDIANA.

ENDQGATE FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 6295492, dated July' 25, 1899.- Application Sled January 13, 1899. Serial No. 702,052. (No model.)

To all whom, it mag/concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK A, CARLSON, a citizen of the United States,residin g at Attica, in the county of Fountain and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful End- Gate Fastener, of which the following is a specification. A

The invention relates to improvements in end-gate fasteners.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of end-gate fasteners and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adaptedto enable an end-gate to be readily secured in position in a Wagonbody and removed therefrom without unscrewing nuts and similar fastening devices.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangeinentof.

parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a Wagon-body provided with an end-gate fastener constructed in accordance with this invention, the end-gate being fastened. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the parts being arranged to permit the end-gate to be removed. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View of one side of the wagon-body, illustrating the arrangement of the parts when the end-gate is locked. Fig. 4. is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective View of the upper hinge.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l designates an end-gate arrangedbetween the sides 2 and 3 of a wagon-body, and the side 2 is provided with a pair of fixed cleats 4, arranged at the inner and outer faces of the end-gate in the usual manner. The other side 3 of the wagon-body is provided adjacent'to the inner face of the end-gate with a fixed cleat 5, and the outer face of this end of the end-gate is engaged by a hinged cleat 6, adapted to be arranged in the positions illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings, to confine and release the end-gate.

The swinging cleat 6, which is adapted to be turned into and out of engagement with the end-gate, is connected with the side 3 of the wagon-body by upper and lower hinges 7 and 8, each composed of a pair of L-shaped leaves adapted to embrace the outer faces and vertical edges of the cleat 6 and the Side 3 of the wagon-body, wherebythe end-gate isY firmly supported in 'its closed position. vThe L-shaped leaves of the hinges are perforated for the reception of screws or other suitable fastening devices which engage the faces and end edges of the side 3 and the cleat 6.

The upper hinge is provided at its outer leaf with a horizontal slot 9, and the inner leaf has a circular opening or perforation 10, in which is journaled abolt or pin 11, having a hook or projection 12 at its outer end to engage the outer face o f the outer leaf. The inner portion 13 of the bolt or pin 11 is rounded and is journaled on the cleat, being provided at its inner terminus with a flange or collar 14 and having a handle 15 detachlongitudinally or transversely of the slot 9 to release and secure the cleat 6.

The collar or flange 14, which is circular, is seated in a recess or housing at the inner face of the cleat and is supported by a disk or plate 17, having a bearing opening and adapted to prevent the fastening device from wabbling.

The invention has tages: The end-gate fastener, which is simple, strong, anddurable, is easily operated and is adapted to enable an end-gate to be readily fastened and unfastened, and. it permits-a solid continuous end-gate to be employed and detached without removing a rod, nut, or analogous fastening device or constructingthe end-gate in sections to permit it to break.

Chan ges in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

What is claimed is- 1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a wagon-body, and an endthe following advan I loo gate, a cleat arranged at the ou'ter face of the end-gate5a hinge, composed of two substan? tially L-shaped leaves embracing the outer faces and vertical edges of the said cleat and the adjacent side of the Wagon-body and hinging the former to the latter, and a fastening device connecting the leaves, whereby the cleat is held in engagement with the end-gate, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a Wagon-body, and a cleat adapted to.` engage anend-gate of a substantially L-shaped hinge secured to the cleat and to the adjacent side of the Wagon-body, one of the leaves of the hinge being provided with a slotan'd the other having an opening, a ro*- tary'pin'orbolt' journaled insaid opening and providedfat one end with a head or projection adapted to passthrough said slot andengage the leal",` anda handle mountedV on the other end` ofthe pin or bolt, substantially as described.

In a device of the class described, the

combination of a wagon-body provided at one side with cleatse, thecleats 5 andv 6 located at the other side of the Wagon-body, the upper and lower hinges having L -shaped leaves and embracing the outer face and vertical edge of the cleat 6 and the adjacent side of the Wagon-body, theupper hinge being pro; vided at its outer leaf with a slot, a rotary pin or bolt passing through the cleat 6 and the Wagon-body, provided at its outer end with a projection or hook to pass through the said slot and having a handle at its inner end; and a collar or flange carried by the pin or bolt and journaled ou tliecleat, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoingas" my own I` have hereto aixedmy signature'in the presence of two Witnesses; 

